Testimonials

My first trip and it was…

Bengt

The Trans-Himalayan

My first trip and it was great fun

I prepared for the trip with…

Stephen

The Trans-Himalayan

I prepared for the trip with several ADV tours and organized rallies, which helped clarify my expectations. The trip exceeded my expectations. Very intense and challenging experience.

Overall the trip was excellent. I…

Stephen

The Trans-Himalayan

Overall the trip was excellent. I joined because I wanted a proper adventure, I love seeing new places on the back of a motorbike, and I have wanted to visit the Himalayas for a long time. It delivered on all of these in a big way. The bike reliability comments are main negative that I would highlight, but I do realise that these bikes take a hammering on these trips, and the mechanic did a good job. There were just times where it felt like the bikes were adding to the difficulties at some of the toughest moments, and I know others had bigger problems that I did (front suspension failure being one that springs to mind).

Cut the ride times down to…

Thomas James

The Trans-Himalayan

Cut the ride times down to 6 hrs a day on demanding tours so you can see more and rest up between days as most of us were in bed straight after dinner.

The group has decided to draft…

Christopher

The Trans-Himalayan

The group has decided to draft a letter, we will send it in the coming weeks

Firstly, a well organised trip and…

Robert

Oases and Peaks at World’s End

Firstly, a well organised trip and everything went to plan, so very well done to VR for that :-) Luggage - I read the travel guide from VR and purchased a duffle bag especially for the trip. I was annoyed then that 9 others in the group had luggage from hard case suitcases and hard cased carry on to wheeled duffle bags (both of which I already had). No penalty for them breaking the rules? Our soft bags mostly ended up under their hard luggage on the bus - not fair. Language - With the best will in the world, mixing 3 non French speaking with 9 French speaking just doesn't work. We just didn't know what was being said and it led to segmentation within the group. This was disappointing as it meant we struggled to make friends or casual conversation with most of the group. Videos/photos - I expected that VR would put a video together of our ride, I was disappointed when I realised any videos were up to us. I would have been prepared to pay for such a video/album. We didn't do enough group photos.

Oases and Peaks at World’s End

Ulf

Oases and Peaks at World’s End

I really loved the trip! It…

Florian

The Trans-Himalayan

I really loved the trip! It was just a great advernture with good people in a marvellous scenery. I highly recommend this tour. But only as rider. I think for a Pilon this will be a pain in the ass ^^. But I cannot judge, is just my opinion. The only negativ point I have is the accident we had. I think someone with the riding experience of Alexander should not be allowed to go on such a tour. I discussed quite a while about joining or not, due I had no offroad experience. But I had ad least 15 years riding experience. Thats it. Keept going like this. I am looking forward to join another tour in the future. Greets Florian

The only issue is possibly improving…

David

The Trans-Himalayan

The only issue is possibly improving the quality of the bikes. They did not perform as well as the hired bikes out of Leh.

I’m always up for a challenge…

Bryan

The Trans-Himalayan

I'm always up for a challenge and this ride really gave me one. Both physically and mentally. At times did feel a little rushed and there was more hours riding than we all anticipated. Maybe this tour needs another day or less miles. But at the end of the day all in all I really enjoyed it and glad I did it. Not ,many people can lay claim to riding these roads.